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Pamela Druckerman

American Writer

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Childhood and adolescence are nothing but milestones: You grow taller, advance to new grades, and get your period, your driver's license, and your diploma. Then, in your 20s and 30s, you romance potential partners, find jobs, and learn to support yourself. Pamela Druckerman

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When my kids correct my cultural missteps, I sometimes suspect that they're not embarrassed, they're gleeful. Pamela Druckerman

Sometimes Correct Kids Embarrassed Cultural Suspect

Babies aren't savages. Toddlers understand language long before they can talk. Pamela Druckerman

Language Long Before Babies Talk Understand Toddlers Savages

In my 40s, I expect to finally reap the average-looking girl's revenge. I've entered the stage of life where you don't need to be beautiful; simply by being well-preserved and not obese, I would now pass for pretty. Pamela Druckerman

Life Beautiful You Revenge Girl Stage Reap Finally Entered Would Obese Pretty Simply Pass Expect Being Where Now Need

There's this idea in America that you can be whatever you want. That remains an ideal in terms of how you dress too - when you go shopping, you try on all possible selves and then decide. Pamela Druckerman

You Shopping Try Whatever Too Possible Dress Remains Idea Ideal Terms How Go Selves America Want Decide Then

Certain woman will be jealous of how skinny you are, no matter what's causing it. Pamela Druckerman

Jealous You Woman Matter Will How Causing Certain Skinny

When I was 41, I had a very bad back pain, and it turned out to be Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Pamela Druckerman

Pain Back Out Bad Bad Back Had Very Turned

Usually, I'm so self-absorbed that my companion could be bleeding to death, and I might not notice. Pamela Druckerman

Death Could Self-Absorbed Bleeding Might Notice Companion

Just as dressing well in your forties entails making choices that reflect who you are and not just wearing generic basics, looking good as you get older requires accentuating and enjoying what's specific to you rather than striving for cookie-cutter perfection. Pamela Druckerman

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In the Nineties, there was all this new research into brain development, with evidence saying poor kids fall behind in school because no one is talking to them at home, no one is reading to them. And middle-class parents seized on this research. Pamela Druckerman

I'm not an early adopter. I'll only start wearing new styles of clothing once they're practically out of date, and I won't move into a neighborhood until it's fully saturated with upscale coffee shops. Pamela Druckerman

Coffee Once Neighborhood Out Wearing Only Date New Until Practically Styles Shops Move Clothing Fully Saturated Coffee Shops Start Early

Podcasts immersed me in colloquial English and put me back in the American zeitgeist. Pamela Druckerman

Me Back Immersed Put American English Zeitgeist

Unlike the time sink of binge-watching a TV series, podcasts actually made me more efficient. Practically every dull activity - folding laundry, applying makeup - became tolerable when I did it while listening to a country singer describing his hardscrabble childhood, or a novelist defending her open marriage. Pamela Druckerman

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The French view is really one of balance, I think... What French women would tell me over and over is, it's very important that no part of your life - not being a mom, not being a worker, not being a wife - overwhelms the other part. Pamela Druckerman

This idea - that the only way to mend the relationship post-affair is through therapy - is unique to the American script. Pamela Druckerman

Relationship Mend Way Only Through Idea American Script Therapy Unique

What you can say, what French parents say to their kids is, 'You don't have to eat everything, honey, you just have to taste it.' And it's that tasting little by little by little that gets kids more familiar with the food and more comfortable with it and more likely to eat it the next time. Pamela Druckerman

When I tell French parents that I know lots of American kids who will eat only pasta or only white rice, they can't believe it. I mean, they can understand how the kid left to his own devices might do that, but they can't imagine that parents would allow that to happen. Pamela Druckerman

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When we're in the U.S., my kids instantly start snacking all the time. I don't know how it happens. There is just more food available all the time. There aren't all these little different varieties of snack foods in France. Pamela Druckerman

Time Food France Kids More Foods Instantly Know How Snack Just Different Happens Available Little Start

I'm always hoping no one is following me around with a camera. Pamela Druckerman

Me Hoping Following No-One Around Always Camera

I don't like rules, because rules, you have to follow. Pamela Druckerman

You Rules Follow Like Because

I hear people in their 20s describe the 40s as a far-off decade of too-late, when they'll regret things that they haven't done. But for older people I meet, the 40s are the decade that they would most like to travel back to. Pamela Druckerman

Travel People Regret Older Meet Back Would Like Most Hear Hear People Decade Done Describe Older People Things

Early childhood offerings vary, but everywhere in Europe and in Canada, they're far more generous than in the United States. Ukrainian dads may not change enough diapers, but their government offers paid maternity leave; practically free preschool; and per-baby payments equivalent to eight months of an average salary. Pamela Druckerman

Government Change Free Enough Months Everywhere States Ukrainian More Vary Generous Practically Equivalent Leave Maternity Salary Diapers Than Canada Offers May Childhood Eight Far Average Paid Payments Europe Dads United United States Preschool Early Early Childhood

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